What? That makes it a classic!
I was raised in a family that had either pushbutton automatics, or three-on-the-tree & four-on-the floor sticks. I remember the first time I saw a 1955 Plymouth with the lever for the PowerFlite automatic sticking out from the center of the dashboard. It just seemed... wrong. Decades later I got into a new minivan that an organization wanted me to drive, and saw the pathetic, vestigial excuse for a gear selector on an oddly placed dash/console. It also just seemed... wrong.
If you're talking about one of those little spinny-knob gear changers on the dash, like the car I once rented...I hated it (can't remember the breed of car). It was just unholy. I'd buy a 1965 Chevy Corvair with a dashboard stick shifter before I'd buy a car with a spinny-knob. Spinny-knobs are for car radios.
